Congress passed an act moving the US embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, but gave presidents the option to defer moving it for 6 months at a time. Every president has been deferring since its passage until now.

He will never be able to read your mind. The two of you will always have different priorities and ways of looking at things. The best bet is just being direct with him. Communication is key to the survival of any relationship.

If this were a baker who turned down a customer for being Christian, we wouldn’t be having all of this handwringing. That baker would be shut down without debate. This us happening because it’s still ok to hate us. Christianity is one of the biggest protected classes. They’re attempting to deny us the protection they enjoy. Consider what those arguments would look like if the roles were reversed.

“The bakery doesn’t need to sell to Christians, there are 60000 other ones who will”

“In a free society, I shouldn’t have to associate myself with a Christian customer if I don’t want to.”

“Giving a Christian a cake for a baptism (or some other ritual) is essentially participating in that ritual, and Its against my beliefs.”

A muslim baker might be forced to bake a cake that violates his aniconism and choose between commiting sacrilige or shutting down. A neonazi group might compel a jewish web designer to make a website praising hitler.

They weren't asking him to make a gay cake. They were asking him to make a cake that would be consumed by gay people. He didn't even give them the chance to discuss content that he would find objectionable.

If the justices ruled in favor of the baker, status quo is maintained, everyone goes home

There is no way that this doesn't set a precedent. You will see many more forms of business become "artistry", and you will see gay people getting barred from more and more places on religious grounds. This might even be the crack that completely destroys anti-discrimination protections in public accommodation law.

I don’t think that people should close themselves off from dating other races, but the truth is that most people end up with people who are the same race as them.

You aren’t entitled to someone’s attraction. Lecture them about racism all you want, but that isn’t going to change a thing. Isn’t is better that these people are up front about their preferences or prejudices? I’d rather that a guy proves himsef to be an asshole upfront than waste any real time with him.

There’s Christopher Hitchens’ old maxim: “That which can be submitted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”

We aren’t the ones claiming to have definitive knowledge about the grand nature of existence. They are. Its their job to prove it. We’re comfortable with not knowing everything. When they can give us something concrete, then we can take them seriously.

My boyfriend and I bonded over our interest in Star Trek. With most shows, we expect to watch them together, but we are allowed to “cheat” on each other when new Star Trek: Discovery episodes air. He took me to a showing of the director’s cut of Wrath of Khan a while back. He started pointing out the scenes that weren’t in the original theatrical cut, and I knew he was the one.

This is a dangerous line of thinking to engage in. The government’s job shouldn’t be to decide what I need and ban me from obtaining anything in excess of that determination. Its not the government’s job to keep me limited to my “needs” as it sees them. This is an exceedingly collectivist way of looking at things, and it is a great way to toss individuality out of the window.

Truth be told, there are many ways for a disturbed individual to effect mass death and destruction. If we were to press a button and make every last firearm disappear from this country, it would not stop the mass killings. People would improvise new weaponry. Its a problem with the culture. Sure, you can make the “gun violence” stat trend downwards, but the “murder” stat will stay the same.

You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. Technology marches forward. 3D printers will allow any Tom, Dick, or Harry to construct a firearm, or something as yet unforseen. All you’re doing is disarming law abiding citizens.